Flags in Classrooms - UCF

UCF Campus News ^ | 09/12/2003 | John C. Hitt, President UCF

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I don't think people are turning anti-American, at least at UCF I don't see that. What I do see is people who are sick of being pushed around by what they perceive as a radical right-wing coup that took over the government and is pushing revolutionary policies through at a furious pace, destroying everything they love about America -- tolerance, the rule of law, justice, truth, compassion, civil discourse, etc.

I would hardly call "Bush & Co." a right-wing coup. Bush is a socialist, IMO. He supports the Medicare drug benefit, the extension of a ban on assault rifles (the very tools needed to overthrow any Brownshirts or other tyrants), and, by signing it, the USSA-Patriot-In-Name-Only act, which allows the Feds to snoop in secret through your homes and library records. If Vladimir Lenin were alive today, he would probably say, "Not bad."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

As far as "assault rifles" go, I inadvertantly perpetuated a misnomer. What the "gun-grabbers" seek to ban are semiautomatic rifles, which they call "assault weapons." Assault rifles are machine guns. Sorry about the error.

[bmauer]

That's just nuts!

[Outlaw76]

Barry, have you read Ann Coulter's book 'Treason'?

If you have, and you actualy traced the references you don't agree with, I think your view of 'macarthyism' will be altered forever. I recomend you do. As a student you should know that disagreeing with a person's point of view is fine, but when it is backed by fact you might need to reconsider your own viewpoint.

"Compare this situation to McCarthyism and the Red Scares in the U.S. when it was virtually impossible to bring up a Marxist viewpoint, even for the purpose of discussion. Marxist views must be permitted in the classroom in order to have critical discussions. So must many other unpopular views. That's the way universities work.

Whatever, keep changing history and eventualy it might return somewhere near the truth.

[bmauer]

To the Coulter reference, I say read Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. I'm sure you find that about as palatable as I find the Coulter.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And you just exposed yourself as a major leftie!

[bmauer]

Socialism rules!